The rise of the right to know : politics and the culture of transparency, 1945-1975 /
"The American founders did not endorse a citizen's right to know. More openness in government, more frankness in a doctor's communication with patients, more disclosure in a food manufacturer's package labeling, and more public notice of actions that might damage the environment...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- A cultural right to know
- Origins of the Freedom of Information Act
- The consumer's right to be informed
- Opening up Congress
- The media's presence
- "To let people know in time"
- Transparency in a transformed democracy
- Disclosure and its discontents